The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC) offers both skills-building webinar series and individual applied science webinars. Our skills-building webinar series are designed to promote a deeper understanding of actionable science approaches by emphasizing the process behind effective engagement between research and management communities. Our individual applied science webinars cover a range of topics and lessons learned from NW CASC-funded projects.

Rethinking Authorship Guidelines to Recognize Diverse Contributions in Collaborative Research
Research in the environmental sciences often involves significant engagement and communication with partners, yet research authorship typically only reflects those involved in the data collection, analysis and writing processes. In this webinar, Steven Cooke, Vivian Nguyen and Dominique Roche will propose a more transparent and inclusive approach to authorship that acknowledges the many ways individuals contribute to conservation science research. This approach, based on an expanded list of roles from the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) system, is introduced in their recent paper Contemporary authorship guidelines fail to recognize diverse contributions in conservation science research.

PRESENTERS:
Steven J. Cooke | Director of the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science, Carleton University
Dr. Steven J. Cooke has diverse research interests that span the natural and social sciences with a focus on aquatic conservation. Cooke is also the Director of the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation where he leads a team conducting evidence syntheses. He is founding editor of the Oxford University Press journal “Conservation Physiology” and serves on the editorial boards of six other journals. Cooke holds a number of leadership positions including Chair of the Sea Lamprey Research Board of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Secretary of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and Board Chair for KeepFishWet.org.

Vivian Nguyen | Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science, Carleton University
Dr. Vivian Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science and the Department of Biology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the interface of science, people and policy within the themes of conservation, environmental change and natural resource management. Dr. Nguyen’s research program focuses on application and mobilizing various forms of knowledge into decisions, policy and practice. She is interested social-ecological systems, human dimensions of environmental issues, science policy and community knowledge.

Dominique Roche | Marie Curie Global Fellow, Carleton University
Dr. Dominique Roche is an ecologist and meta-scientist funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship from the European Commission. He studies how publicly shared research data (open data) contribute to improving transparency, reproducibility and collaboration in science. He is also actively engaged in science policy through various appointments with Research Data Canada, the NSERC-CREATE Living Data Project and the Canada National Committee for CODATA. He is a co-founder of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE.org) and serves on the society’s executive committee.

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